“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day…
Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth?
That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity…”
—John Quincy Adams, 4 July 1837
The American Soul Podcast
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